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SPAIN - 3i director joins Magnum Industrial Partners

Inaki Echave has left 3i's London office to join Magnum Industrial Partners, a Spanish buyout firm recently launched by ex Santander Angel Corcostegui. The firm has begun the fundraising for its first fund, capped at EUR 750m. Echave's work at 3i included...

UK - Private equity rumours continue to engulf Whitbread

Whitbread, the listed leisure group that owns Premier Travel Inn, Costa, David Lloyd Leisure and T.G.I. Fridays is again the subject of private equity speculation after market sources report that Starwood Capital has built up a 3% stake in the company.

UK - FSA reports positively on private equity industry

The FSA has today published its report on the private equity industry, an inquiry that was begun in March having been prompted by the rapidly growing size of the industry. Despite the fact that the Justice Department in the US has stated that it will...

GERMANY - KKR and Goldman Sachs acquire Kion forklift unit

Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Goldman Sachs Group's private-equity unit have signed an agreement to acquire the Kion forklift unit of Wiesbaden-based Linde Group, the world's largest maker of industrial gases, for EUR 4bn. The sale is subject to regulatory...

NL- Wavin exercises overallotment option

Dutch pipe manufacturer Wavin has announced that ABN AMRO Rothschild, Lehman Brothers and Merril Lynch International, in their capacity of joint global coordinators and joint bookrunners and in name of the banking syndicate, have exercised the overallotment...

UK - Warburg Pincus pharmaceutical company makes acquisition

Archimedes Pharma Ltd, a speciality pharmaceutical company based in Reading has acquired Link Holdings Ltd. Link is a Sussex-based pharmaceuticals group focusing on sales and marketing of speciality pharmaceuticals with commercial operations in the UK,...

UK- Braveheart invests in MicroStencil Ltd

Braveheart, a venture capital and investment management business, has announced that it has jointly led a round of funding into MicroStencil Ltd of approximately £500,000. This is the second round of funding the company has received and other contributors...

NORWAY - Reiten & Co purchases Ellipse-Klinikken

Reiten & Co has acquired a controlling ownership stake in Ellipse-Klinikken, the Nordic region’s largest non-invasive beauty clinic chain. Ellipse-Klinikken offers non-surgical treatments and has 9 locations in Scandinavia and 1 in the UK. In 2005,...

FRANCE - European Capital to open German office

One-stop buyout arranger and mezzanine underwriter European Capital has revealed it will open an office in Germany in the first semester of 2007. Frankfurt is the most likely location of the new premises.

FRANCE - Innate Pharma goes public

Innate Pharma has completed a EUR 33.7m capital increase on Euronext Paris' compartment C. The instiutional tranche was reportedly 2.5x over-subscribed. Bryan Garnier was joint lead manager and joint bookrunner on this transaction alongside Société...

UK - Styles & Wood to float

Aberdeen Asset Managers Private Equity portfolio company Styles & Wood will raise £72m when it lists next week. The 150p per share IPO will give the shopfitter and retail property services provider a market capitalisation of £96.7m. Investec has been...

ITALY - MPS Venture and Consilium exit M.F.U

Mps Venture SGR and Consilium SGR have announced the divestment of M.F.U. SpA. The value of the exit proceeds is undisclosed. M.F.U specialises in the supply of integrated logistic solutions. The purchaser is the Anixter Group, a multinational leader...

NL-Newion Investments realises investment in Wisdom Group

Newion Investments has realised its investment in Wisdom Group, comprising Wisdom TMLC and The Missing Link, via a trade sale to Ordina. No financial details have been disclosed, but the acquisition price is in the range of 0.8 - 1.5x the company's turnover.

SWEDEN - Opica's offer becomes unconditional

Opica AB, a company jointly owned by Apax Europe VI, Nordic Capital Fund VI and Apax France, has announced that all conditions to the offer for Swedish healthcare group Capio have been satisfied and that the offer therefore has become unconditional.